Hear What All The Bookish People Say #13

Are you interested in the thoughts and lives of the bookish people of today? Don’t look any further and read the best interviews of the week.

Margaret Atwood did an AMA on Reddit and as always she has fantastic answersI think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. “Am I really going to do this? Won’t it hurt?” And at some point you just have to flop int there and scream. Once you’re in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what’s most required.

Megan Daum tells Largehearted Boy about the music she listened to while writing Unspeakable.Because in my alternate (i.e. non-existent) life I am a singer songwriter, I tend to think of my books – and books in general – as non-musical versions of musical compositions. A novel might be like an opera. And a collection of essays, especially one like The Unspeakable, in which the pieces were written specifically for the book and intended to be read either individually or as a cohesive enterprise, feels a lot like the work of a 1970s-style singer-songwriter. In other words, an old-fashioned album.

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